New Revised Standard Version
At the upper entrance they hacked the wooden trellis with axes.

Contemporary English Version
It looks like a forest chopped to pieces.

New American Bible
They hacked away like a forester gathering boughs, swinging his ax in a thicket of trees.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they knew not both in the going out and on the highest top. As with axes in a wood of trees,

And they knew not both in the going out and on the highest top. As with axes in a wood of trees,

1 Kings 5:6 Give orders, therefore, that thy servants cut me down cedar trees, out of Libanus, and let my servants be with thy servants: and I will give thee the hire of thy servants whatsoever thou wilt ask: for thou knowest how there is not among my people a man that has skill to hew wood like to the Sidonians.

2 Chronicles 2:14 The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, whose father was a Tyrian, who knoweth how to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, and in iron, and in marble, and in timber, in purple also, and violet, and silk and scarlet: and who knoweth to grave all sort of graving, and to devise ingeniously all that there may be need of in the work with thy artificers, and with the artificers of my lord David thy father.

Jeremiah 46:22,23 Her voice shall sound like brass, for they shall hasten with an army, and with axes they shall come against her, as hewers of wood. . . .